The assembly in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the many outcomes of the July 13, 1931 massacre. Recommended by a British officer JB Glancy, the initial assembly, the Parja Sabha had more nominated members from the darbar than the elected ones. The right to vote was restricted to adult males, a candidate had to prove he can read and write before being permitted to contest and the entire seat adjustment was on a communal basis. Right now, a new delimitation process is underway. This write-up by
Prof Gulshan Rai
The Tribune
, then published from Lahore, on February 18, 1939, offers some basic ideas about the pre-partition constitutions, assembly and the delimitation process in Kashmir. This opinion also offers an idea about how the Maharaja was loved by the subcontinentâs English media
Khalid Bashir Ahmad
In January 2013, when the then Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages invited the then Minister for Culture to the foundation laying ceremony of the
Tehzeeb Mahal at Srinagar, the latter was like, “At Srinagar…Why not at Jammu?”
Governor being briefed about upcoming Tehzeeb Mahal Project in September 2013.
January 22, 2013: Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, lays the foundation stone of the Rs 72 crore
Tehzeeb Mahal near the Tourist Reception Centre in Srinagar. Five years and an expenditure of Rs 50 million later, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, heading a coalition government with the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), scraps the project and decides to offer the landholding to the JK Bank whose Corporate Headquarter is located close to the project site.